netdev - Re: [PATCH next v1] ipvlan: assign unique dev-id for each slave device.

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Date:   Wed, 04 Jan 2017 13:30:53 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mahesh@...dewar.net
Cc:     edumazet@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, maheshb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH next v1] ipvlan: assign unique dev-id for each slave
 device.

From: Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@...dewar.net>
Date: Tue,  3 Jan 2017 12:47:16 -0800

> From: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>
> 
> IPvlan setup uses one mac-address (of master). The IPv6 link-local
> addresses are derived using the mac-address on the link. Lack of
> dev-ids makes these link-local addresses same for all slaves including
> that of master device. dev-ids are necessary to add differentiation
> when L2 address is shared.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.